Continue to write the dream of red mansions with the routine of house fighting

The family didn't have much money, so if they redeemed Musk Moon, they would have no money to redeem Ying'er, and if they redeemed Ying'er, they would not be able to redeem Musk Moon.Jia Yun and Xiaohong have been running around these days and have no money left. Fortunately, Xiaohong pawned the silver bracelet as a dowry, so she managed to raise enough money to redeem the two musk moons and warblers.A family of four has four mouths, although there are two Xiaohong Qianxue who often help out, but it is not the best method after all.The three of Baochai had to do some starch washing, sewing, and mending work to subsidize the family.In the cold winter and snowy nights, the three girls hugged the stove and chatted at night, doing embroidery work, laughing or spitting.

Baochai picked out a few books from the Xue family's collection and moved them here. Baoyu's flipping through them was nothing more than "University" and "The Doctrine of the Mean", which was even less interesting.Seeing that he was stupid, Baochai persuaded him, "We are not as good as usual now. If you still have this temper, how will you do well in the future?" Seeing that Baoyu ignored him, she sighed and lifted the curtain go out.When Baoyu heard that Baochai had gone out, he dug out an old yellowed handkerchief from under the pillow. It was something Daiyu had left him, and there were still Daiyu's pen and ink on the handkerchief.On the day when he ransacked the house, he pressed the object tightly to his chest, and only then did he keep this only thought.Baoyu stared at the old handkerchief in a daze, and unconsciously shed two tears.

Just at this time, Ying'er lifted the curtain and came in. She was about to go into the room to get the embroidery shed, but happened to see Baochai going out wiping her tears.She is a straightforward person, seeing her daughter being wronged again, she couldn't bear it anymore, so she rushed in.Seeing Baoyu's half-dead appearance, he was so angry that he wanted to say something ugly, but he was afraid that Baochai would hear about her.I had no choice but to look for something while muttering: "Who is a seven-foot man who relies on his wife and girls to support him every day, or he waits for relatives and friends to help him. If he can't read a book, he can't be an official, and he can't be a wife. That's all. Anyway. You should also find someone who is earning a living, just waiting at home every day for others to stuff their mouths with food, such a person is also called a man?!" After talking, seeing Baoyu and ignoring him, he immediately lost his face and fell The curtain is out.

Yinger's words were naturally not pleasant to the ear, and Baoyu felt ashamed when he heard it. He didn't want to study, and he had nothing to refute Yinger, so he had to avoid the door with a stick.But I saw people coming and going in the streets and alleys, yelling and hawking one after another, shopkeepers, porters, and donkeys and burdens all made a living.

All the way to the west, Baoyu came to the original Ningrong Street, but saw that the Ningrong Second Mansion was decorated with lights and festoons again, and the original plaque of the Imperial Palace had been replaced by the Imperial Palace.A few people in brocade clothes at the door were talking and laughing while sticking their chests out and gesticulating.

It turns out that Rongguo Mansion has asked the emperor to bestow a new nobleman with the surname of horse.The servants of the Ma family were busy tidying up and waiting for the auspicious day to welcome the master to move to a new house.Among those powerful slaves, one with sharp eyes saw Baoyu standing at the main entrance and looking in.Seeing that Baoyu was wearing a coarse cotton-padded coat, and shrunk his hands and feet in the cold, the man looked down on him a little. He only regarded him as a beggar from somewhere, and yelled at Baoyu, "Where is the beggar from? Open your dog eyes and take a good look? This Is this where you should come? Looking around, believe it or not, grandpa dug your eyes out to use as a pity? Why don’t you get out of here?!”

Baoyu revisited his old place and was fascinated, thinking about how glorious it was to visit relatives in Yuanchun.What kind of scenery is it like to have a clear view of the ritual?How elegant is it to write poems about the sisters' harmony in the past?Thinking now that the whole family was dying and scattered, Baoyu suddenly felt heartbroken and burst into tears.When the servants of the Ma family saw him instead of leaving, they squatted on the ground and wailed in pain. They only thought that he came here to seek bad luck, and they became more and more annoyed. They immediately called people, and several slaves held Baoyu with big sticks and covered their heads. The face was beaten off, and Baoyu woke up and fled in a hurry. Even so, he was still hit with several sticks, and his whole body hurt badly.

Baoyu was expelled with sticks, and without knowing the direction, he broke into the market.Unexpectedly, at this time of cold winter weather and the beginning of heavy snowfall, the market was extremely lively, many people were selling their sons and daughters there.Human teeth picked two very handsome little girls like picking animals.When the little girl's parents saw that the girl had been picked out, instead of feeling sad, they objected and kowtowed their heads in gratitude.Baoyu looked at it strangely, he never knew that such absurd things existed in this world, and seeing that everyone in the market seemed to have taken it for granted, Baoyu was even more surprised.

Some people around sighed: "Nowadays in this world, Ren Yazi has become a great benevolent person." The other person laughed and said: "I can't blame the world, those two little girls were bought by Ren Yazi, and her family can live together. Survive. Unfortunately, the hailstorm a few months ago was just in time for the autumn harvest, and the good food was destroyed. I heard that many people in the suburbs of Beijing have starved to death." The first person followed suit: "But No, now the price of rice in the city is going to skyrocket, and the imperial court doesn’t care about it.” Another sneered, “What do you care about? Can you manage it? The bandits in the south have risen again. I heard that the north is not peaceful. There is no place to collect the military salary, so where do you care about the life and death of the subordinates?" Baoyu sighed while listening, and a few people were talking, when suddenly a few guards in brocade clothes swarmed up, and locked up those who slandered the court. .

Baoyu felt even more bored, but he was afraid of seeing Baochai and being persuaded again, and also afraid of Yinger's cynicism, so he dared not go home.Seeing that there are many Yalang's matchmakers in the market, remembering Ying'er's words, she prepares to find a job as a teacher.It's just that he had never approached these people, and he didn't know how to open his mouth. His face like a full moon was flushed red, and he finally made up his mind to go up and ask people, but he never thought that before the people moved, he would make a big man stumble.When the big man saw that he bumped into someone, he was a little embarrassed, so he quickly helped Baoyu up, and bowed again and again: "I'm really sorry, I blame me for not having eyes, and bumping into sir." Baoyu originally hated men, but he never went outside Exposed, and seeing that the man doesn't look like a bad guy, then.The man looked Baoyu up and down and said with a smile: "I see that Mr. is a learned man, why do you come here to make a living?" Baoyu had to smile bitterly and said: "I don't have any knowledge, but it is forced by my family's livelihood, so I only come here Come and find a living."

The man was a cheerful man, so he said to Baoyu, "Come with me. I heard people say that Dinghaihou's mansion in the west is recruiting Xishi. It was said that they wanted Jinshi. Then Dinghaihou Ma is a military general and illiterate. Scholars." He didn't come to his door; later he said that he wanted to raise people, but his young son was very stubborn, and with the protection of his grandmother, he left several masters in anger, and now the people who raised him refused to come to the door. Now they are talking about being a scholar. "

Baoyu remembered what he had asked the servants of the Ma family to type out just now, and his handsome face turned purple with shame, so he had to cup his hands to the big man and said, "Thank you for your kindness, brother. I really don't even have the reputation of a scholar, but I call you brother." I'm bothered."

When the big man heard that Baoyu was not even a scholar, he was stunned. After a long while, he said to Baoyu, "Brother, you have created a problem for my brother. In terms of strength, your thin arms and legs are so thin that you can't lift your hands. Mention, you don't even have a reputation for learning, so how can you find something to do?" Baoyu had to lower his head, and when he was about to speak, he suddenly saw a thin man rushing over and asked the big man, "Our shopkeeper wants more. Fu, have you found it?" The big man leaned his forehead and sighed, "Where can I find a watchman for this ghost?" After he finished speaking, he suddenly looked at Baoyu as if thinking of something, and then looked at Baoyu again. The lean man pulled aside, and the two of them chattered and didn't know what to say.

After about half a stick of incense, the big man turned around, beckoned Baoyu to come over, and said to him, "Little brother, it's not that my brother won't help you, it's just that you have no strength and no fame. There is only one thing right now." You can do the job. There was a watchman on Qianjie, but he froze to death half a month ago. Several shopkeepers in Qianjie raised some money to find someone to patrol the street and tell the time. Unexpectedly, half a month after another The moon is raining and snowing, and there is no one to take this job, and now you are just in time. According to the shopkeepers, this watchman is a hard worker, and he can give you five hundred yuan a month in silver. , I will give you an extra ten catties of rice, I think this is the only job you can do, it depends on whether you are willing or not."

Baoyu thought that Baochai was worried about money every day, and he should share one or two of it. Besides, it was not worth it to walk around the streets to tell the time. There was no other work to do around him, so he had to agree first.

When Baochai heard that Baoyu had gone out, she didn't care much. But when the sun fell and Baoyu didn't come back, she became anxious.Ask Ying'er to invite Jia Yun, but Jia Yun and Xiaohong have gone out, and ask the neighbors, but the neighbors don't know where their husband and wife have gone, so Ying'er has to tell Baochai the exact words.Baochai had no choice but to take Sheyue Yinger and two of them to go out to look for it in person, only to find Baoyu who was not seen in the second watch.Baochai fell down in anxiety and sighed, and then asked Sheyue and Yinger if she had said anything to Baoyu. Yinger had to tell Baochai and Sheyue what she had said about Baoyu.Baochai's anger changed, and she raised her hand to hit her. Sheyue hurriedly stood in front of Yinger, and persuaded Baochai, "Now is not the time to beat her. It's important to find the second master first. If you want me to say that Yinger said It's not entirely wrong, I see that the second master is more and more dazed when he comes in, and his behavior is also perverted, and he doesn't want to listen to our persuasion, it would be fine if Xiren was here."

Before the words were finished, an attacking voice came from outside the door: "You little hoof, you miss me so much?" Everyone in the room was shocked when they heard the words, and hurriedly opened the door, and saw a woman standing at the door, with a slender figure and a long face , wearing a peach-red cotton jacket, paired with a moon-white cotton skirt, black and oily, with a black silk dish tied into a woman's style with a hairpin, who is it if it is not an attacker?

Ying'er was really shocked when she saw it, she was surprised and happy.Sheyue cried and laughed with joy, Baochai hurriedly pulled Xiren into the house, and Jia Yun and Xiaohong also followed.When Baochai saw Jia Yun and his wife, he hurriedly told them about Baoyu's loss, but it is unknown how they would react.

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If there is a little bit of Calvin, quickly send Baoyu out of the house, and it will be over.A little bit of anxiety, a little bit of self-doubt, adjusting...